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2010 Recipients of the SLA Rising Star Award
Jessica Warner Beauchamp consults as a project manager for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where she manages and supports more than a dozen teams dedicated to implementing the Smithsonian's Digitization Strategic Plan. An active SLA member since 2005, Beauchamp currently serves the Washington, D.C. Chapter (DC/SLA) as co-chair of the chapter's community outreach committee; she previously served as its ethics ambassador, second vice president, and chair of the strategic planning committee.
Beauchamp moved into information management as a second career following 15 years in the communications field. She previously worked as an analyst for a large trade association providing reference, research, and information services to staff, members, the press, and the general public. She also worked as a metadata specialist for a nonprofit education research organization and as a volunteer for the Fairfax County (Va.) Library.
Beauchamp holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural anthropology from Wellesley College and a Master of Science degree in library science (MLS) from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Amy Buckland is the e-scholarship, e-publishing and digitization coordinator at McGill University Library in Montreal, where she coordinates digital publishing initiatives, digitization projects, and the institutional repository. She has been an active member of SLA since 2006 and currently serves as the communications and social media chair for the SLA Academic Division and the SLA Information Technology (IT) Division.
Prior to assuming her current position, she worked as a liaison librarian in the Howard Ross Library of Management, also at McGill. Her research interests include the transformation of scholarly communication, virtual research environments, and the use of emerging technologies to build communities.
Buckland is the past secretary of the Eastern Canada Chapter of SLA and past president of the McGill SLA Student group. She co-convenes the Canadian Library Association's Emerging Technologies Interest Group and is the publisher of Library Student Journal, an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal. In 2008, she was named a "Mover & Shaker" by Library Journal. She is the author of a blog, http://www.informingthoughts.com/. Buckland has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Concordia University in Montreal and a Master of Library & Information Studies from McGill University.
Reece Dano is an information specialist at Ziba Design, an interdisciplinary design and branding firm in Portland, Oregon. He has been a member of SLA since 2007 and is currently the alignment ambassador for the Division of Advertising and Marketing. Dano also serves as the membership director for the Oregon Chapter of SLA, working to promote ties with students who may be unaware of the wide variety of career paths available to them after graduation.
At Ziba, Dano built an embedded librarianship model for the company wherein he provides strategic support for multiple design and branding projects, working with team members throughout the design process. He also supports Ziba's business development and marketing initiatives and recently has made Web-based ethnographic studies of consumer-generated data a core competency for the company's Consumer Insights and Trends group.
Prior to accepting his current position, Dano worked in technical services positions at the libraries of Boston University, Johns Hopkins University and Reed College. He holds an MLIS degree from the University of Washington's iSchool as well as a Master of Music degree in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts from Linfield College.
Bethan Ruddock is a content development officer at Mimas, a center of excellence based at the University of Manchester in England that provides services to education and research communities in the United Kingdom. She works with the library and archival services team at Mimas to investigate and implement sustainable content development initiatives.
Ruddock joined SLA in 2009 and was awarded one of four SLA Europe Early Career Conference Awards to attend the SLA 2009 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Since then, she has been actively involved in the work of the SLA Europe Chapter and now serves on the chapter's board as co-chair of the Early Career Committee.
Her interest in supporting fellow new professionals led Ruddock to develop a number of resources for the library and information community, including a mailing list to collate and share information about awards and sponsorships open to information professionals and students. She contributes to a number of blogs and is the author of her own blog, http://bethaninfoprof.wordpress.com/. Ruddock holds a Master of Arts degree in library and information science from Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester and a Master of Arts in English studies from the University of Manchester.
Chris Vestal works for ASRC Management Services in Washington, D.C.supporting its contract with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He supervises a team of four researchers and assists patent examiners researching subjects related to patent applications in the fields of computer architecture, software, and cryptographic technologies. He also creates and delivers technology-specific training for patent examiners on topics such as searching relevant databases and using the latest Web-based information resources.
Vestal has been a member of SLA since 2006 and is currently co-convener for the SLA Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Caucus, editor-in-chief of the DC/SLA newsletter, an alignment ambassador and a member of the SLA Public Relations Advisory Council. He also served as the DC/SLA "dine around" coordinator in 2009, organizing 22 networking dinners for members. Vestal received his MLIS from Drexel University in 2008. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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